The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 5

‘For who knows,’ he said to himself, ‘whether I may not have some good luck again.’

Who acts: man, I · What happens: know, say, not have · To what, where: man, good luck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 knows	mark
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 knows	nsubj
4	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knows	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 knows	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 have	advmod
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 luck	det
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 luck	amod
20	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
21	again	again	ADV	_	17 have	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	know	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	man		man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	not have	may	I	some good luck		again	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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